Surrealist artists (first one here - Jacek Yerka)
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Topic: Surrealist artists (first one here - Jacek Yerka)
Posted By: Marty McFly
Subject: Surrealist artists (first one here - Jacek Yerka)
Date Posted: May 01 2010 at 16:50
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Such a weird images, sinister and beautiful (in a dark way). I can imagine some of these as covers of some weird and obscure Prog albums :) Wait a minute, I saw the last one somewhere.
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: May 01 2010 at 16:51
I love strange art like this. 
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: May 01 2010 at 17:55
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Me too, I enjoy obvious choice - Salvator Dalí too and there is more of artists like him. Do you know some ?
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 02 2010 at 07:03
Remedios Varo!   |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 02 2010 at 09:22
Carel Willink (1900-1983)
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 03 2010 at 10:31
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fantastic art! ------------- 
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 09 2010 at 07:23
Marius van Dokkum (b. 1957) -------------
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 16 2010 at 03:09
 Leonora Carrington |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:26
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I forgotten this thread. Beautiful pictures. Truly art.
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Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:34
Love that picture! |
Marty McFly wrote:
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:37
I immediately thought of this album cover :  ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:40
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"nauka chodzenia" it would be the same in polish = the science of treading ?
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:55
Yes, because Jacek Yerka is Polish.  http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Yerka - http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek_Yerka ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 18:59
Zdzisław Beksiński is my favourite surreal artist:       ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: May 22 2010 at 19:17
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There is one Czech artist, Jakub Dvorsky who did one beautiful game:
And of course, there is always Giger, most of his pictures are too dirty to be posted here, so I choose gun:
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 24 2010 at 19:51
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Hi,
I always thought that Hipgnosis (Storm Thorgeson) is very progressive and it was one of the reasons why I chased so much music that has his covers. With one massive bonus ... his covers usually amounted to a small commentary on what the music was about and by and large for 40 years his covers have been fairly with it ... to the point that when I heard that Mars Volta declined one of their covers, I immediately got the idea ... the music is idealistic and sometimes over bearing ... and consequently have not heard it yet ... you will find very few covers that Hipgnosis has done that are not with it, or the comment from the picture really says something about the music! And it would not be too far below Storm's ability and style since he IS a major artist and HAS worked with the best, to not have an idea about some music ... he has heard more of it than all of us! Or his covers would not always be with it!
The other one, did not do a lot of work in rock music, in fact almost none. Cartoonist Scarfe is very good and very satirical to the point of being surrealistic many times and you can see this in the film of The Wall (Pink Floyd) but you never saw this on his books. Call it what you will but his cartoons coming alive translated into some serious surrealism, unless what caused that was more Roger Waters than anything else, since his view of things is a bit out there in left field.
All in all, Falk U Rogner that did the Amon Duul 2 covers all the way through Vive La Trance, was extremely surrealistic by using multi media and cartoons and stuff. And the inside cover of Wolf City is worth the poster, as is the inside of Dance of the Lemmings. Fabulous art and work. Just like the music and he played keyboards!
There are others, but sometimes the art is there ... but the music does not match. Klaus Schulze had an artist do some of his covers (Black Dance, Picture Music) and they were very Dali'esque, but a lot of those images would have fit better his album Audentity, for example, where things like "Sebastiam en traum" stand out as massively surrealistic and for most people's ears very weird.
It's a tough area all around, and the one thing missing in America more than anything else is the art to go with the music ... guess why most of the SF stuff is remembered? ... yeah ... a lot of the covers and the posters and the art that was all around. But Americans are way too commercial to appreciate art and have a friend or artist help them help themselves! Most art that gets remembered in history is always a "scene" ... and people that abstain and think their own is more important than anything else a la rock'n'roll and prog ego style, are not likely to make a dent anywhere artistically! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: boo boo
Date Posted: May 24 2010 at 19:58
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Ha, these are the kinda images my mind conjures up when listening to prog.
Beksiński is especially one of my favorites. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingboobs/?chartstyle=LastfmSuicjdeGirls" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 25 2010 at 05:10
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Speaking of the historical surrealism, there's an excellent display of it at Tate Modern. I can't say I have any favourites from the historical surrealists but I find their ideas brilliant, and they have shaped the imaginary of the 20th century in a way that still defines it. Especially their explorations in film and photography have permeated, by the 40s and 50s, in the mainstream visual domain. Speaking of surrealism in a wider meaning, I love Hieronymus Bosch, probably the greatest dude of all time. I've seen some of his works in Bruges and Bruxelles and they are stunning. Also, Brueghel's Bosch inspired works are also fabulous. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 03:23
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Wow, those Beksiński are fantastic. I love how tortured they are. Very dark stuff indeed!
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 03:38
Some more dark stuff, Francis Bacon: |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 04:37
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A village in some desert, and a piano with plants growing out of it on
top? Hm, guess I'm not too crazy about weirdness for weirdness sake.
Most of
these (not all) feel rather shallow to me. My two favorite artists of the original surrealists
Max Ernst and
Rene Magritte, always seemed to have some kind of genuine idea behind
their surreal scenery. Anyway. Here's a drawing by a colleague of mine ( http://www.sverremalling.com/ - link ):  ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 04:43
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Belgium is the land of surrealism and nowhere did that translate better than in painting, most notably with:
RENE MAGRITTE 1898-1967
You'll see 91 oeuvres here
http://www.ricci-art.net/fr/Rene-Magritte.htm - http://www.ricci-art.net/fr/Rene-Magritte.htm
And you can order 57 of them here
http://www.AllPosters.fr - www.AllPosters.fr
PAUL DELVAUX (1897 - 1994)
http://www.ricci-art.net/fr/Paul-Delvaux.htm - www.ricci-art.net/fr/
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 05:08
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My God, so many good thing to check out in this thread, where to start?!? And I must mention http://www.dimitrijepopovic.from.hr/galerija.php - Dimitrije Popović :  ------------- |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 05:23
also James Ensor (not surrealist per se, but influenced the movement) :
  ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 05:27
Polish artist Witkacy (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) :
  ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 05:56
Belgium were also the land of Symbolism (where Ensor fits better in) in the late 18th century, which a lot of what people confuse with Surrealism. Basically the most interesting country for art after 1850, imo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_XX - Les XX ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 06:11
Yes, the display at the Tate was certainly pleasing. Also another Surrealist gallery which has opened over the last year or two to keep an eye out for is in Berlin - not too far from the Brandenburg Gates. Many of the work in the gallery has been tucked away in private collections for sometime. Last year I was able to see works by both Ernst and de Chirico (along side many other artist) I did not know existed. I can echo your sentiment of 'brilliant ideas'. Since you are from France, have you looked into the French Surrealist at all? A large portion of the moment in Paris - fronted by Breton - was dominated by the literary facet, which suited my tastes more closely than the Visual Arts. Also, over the last couple of months I've been making my way through Luis Bunuel's film's. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 06:26
| Yes. Recently I've seen this fabulous exhibition of surrealist exploration in photography and film, http://www.amazon.fr/subversion-images-Surr%C3%A9alisme-photographie-film/dp/2844263909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274872952&sr=8-1 - La Subversion Des Images , at the Pompidou, made I only of materials from their archives. I strongly recommend the catalogue, it's huge and contains all the exhibited material. |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 06:54
Any particular artists you'd cherry pick from the takings? A couple of weeks ago I attended a Man Ray exhibition called 'Man Ray, Africa Art and the Modernist Len'. 'twas interesting for me, from the aspect that I'm intrigued by African Music/culture, so to see the way some of Surrealist photographers used these indigenous articles as Modernist ideas in the west (hate that terminology) was highly interesting. In many ways it reminded me of Ernst infatuation with the traditional Indian masks and figurines while he was traveling through America. |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: May 26 2010 at 16:16
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Martin Velíšek, first four images are pictures he has done for Czech band Už jsme doma
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: June 24 2010 at 14:30
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Just jumping my previous post. Does somebody find it beautiful ?
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Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: June 24 2010 at 20:27
Am I the only person who noticed that this already is an album cover?
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: June 24 2010 at 20:29
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^ That looks so much better without the corny cgi letters. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 24 2010 at 21:09
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Wish this was a genre I knew more about. Only surrealist artist I know is Dali. At a bookstore once saw a huge book of EVERY work Dali ever did. My god that stuff was whacked! But brilliant!  |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: June 25 2010 at 05:02
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^ Actually, he was the only surrealist I knew for years. But go this way if you feel like, it's certainly rewarding experience. You won't be disappointed. ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:03
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New meat:
------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my |
Posted By: Noak
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:08
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Unoriginal perhaps, but Not to be Reproduced by Magritte might be my favorite painting ever. It's just so wonderful. 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:11
I really like this one. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:17
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That third one is Dali! I recognize it in a hearbeat. Like 70% of his paintings involve body parts/things being held up by sticks...  |